Category:Trestle (Kirtland Air Force Base)

English:Trestle (or the Trestle) is a structure in the Sandia Base area of Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA. It has no metal parts, and is the largest all-wood-and-glue laminated structure in the world. It used a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse to simulate the electromagnetic effects of nuclear weapons on aircraft and rockets without the need to use an actual high-altitude nuclear explosion. Formally known as the ATLAS-I (Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator), it was built and put into operation in the late 1970s, and deactivated in 1991, but the structure remains.

There is a discrepancy of 47 meters between the above coordinates and the ones stored at linked Wikidata item Q4654700 (35°1′48″N 106°33′29″W, precision: 11 m). Please reconcile them. To copy Commons coordinates to Wikidata, you can use QuickStatements tool with string Q4654700 P625 @035.03000/-106.55750 S143 Q565 after replacing spaces with tabs in a text editor.